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Spacewarp, v. 5, issue 5, whole no. 27, June 1949
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Dear Art: "The Gleeful Cadaver" is not by me! You and your point headed beaver! ((Leave r-tRapp out of this, fatso! -- Roscoe)) That poem is the work of one Richard F. Schwichtenberg, teacher of English at Cadillac High, Cadillac, Michigan. Said Schwichtenberg is one of Cadillac's most noted StFen. Second only to myself in sheet, awesome power; so you can realize what an awful thing this mistake is, particularly right before report cards. As to your poll, here's my answers. (1) Prozines, from the top down. TWS, SS, aSF, Planet, SSS. Different, WT, FFM (with Bradbury), the rest about equal. I rarely ever buy those below here, so I don't feel up to rating them. (2) Any mag with Bradbury in it automatically gets top billing. Any mag with E.E. Smith, G. O. Smith, or others of their all gadjets and no people ilk automatically get bottom place. Ed Hamilton, Heinlein, Hubbard, Frederic Brown, Hal Clement, Teddy Sturgeon, Lillith Loraine, Lews Padgett, and others of their school of thought all mean "buy the mag" to this person. (3) I'll take the aSF covers myself. On covers I like Bonestell, Orban, Lawrence, etc., on down. When is someone going to wise up and put Paul back on covers where he belongs? I love his beautiful, streamlined ray mechs and solid blocks of shaded color. Lovely little toys. (4) Yep, I collect prozines. Just those I like, tho, with no thought to complete series and such. Got close to 200 mags. Got 18 fantasy books; 35 including my Bible, religious books, and esoteric poetry ((?)) If you've ever read Kenneth Patchen (The Shy Pornographer -- An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air) you will understand that question mark). I also save fanzines. It's the packrat in me. (5) I do not belong to the NFFF. ((You should. -- Roscoe))((Yes. -r-tRapp)) I do not belong to the MSFS. I do belong to the Universe Club of Cadillac, an anarchistic bunch if you've ever seen one. No officers, no dues, no set membership list -- just walk right in and there you are, a member. Needless to say, it makes for a large turnover in membership. Have I met fen? Oh, brother, have I met fen! Cadillac is packed with the things, and I've met nearly all the MSFS bunch to boot. What do I think of them? Well, because the fandom idea is centered around literature, and a somewhat out-of-this-world form of it to boot, all fen are highly literate. (i.e. They can read. The majority of them ever wear shoes.) They are individualists, too. Hardly ever members of the gullible herd. Wonderful people. Some of them are a bit too much of deep-end-goer-offers. But for all that we could easily make anarchy work if most of the world were like fen. Race hatred? With them it is just an academic question. And even at that it is argued honestly and without the damned hypocrisy of the ordinary people, who are poisoned by Christianity. Even Christians are welcomed into fandom, even tho is about 80% atheist. In an anarchy, tis said nothing would get done. Not if the anarchists were fen. They get things done alright. Piles of fanzines and even some paper-backed books have been turned out by fen. Peace? Fellowship? I've known fen to put up perfect strangers at their homes for the night, just because they were fellow fen. Fandom is a way of life, and the best way of life I've ever come across. Why, aside from a cockeyed set of "Thou shalt not get plastered off the club treasury" ethics, fandom doesn't have any morals. Yes, fandom is amoral and I like it that way. (If you don't believe it, look at a couple of fanzine covers, and read Redd Boggs and other members of his ilk.)… Yors, RAY NELSON 433 E. Chapin Cadillac, Mich. ((This goes on and on, dammit. If popular demand is great enuf, we'll print the rest next month.)) [script] and we're pretty sure it will be. [/script] 21
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Dear Art: "The Gleeful Cadaver" is not by me! You and your point headed beaver! ((Leave r-tRapp out of this, fatso! -- Roscoe)) That poem is the work of one Richard F. Schwichtenberg, teacher of English at Cadillac High, Cadillac, Michigan. Said Schwichtenberg is one of Cadillac's most noted StFen. Second only to myself in sheet, awesome power; so you can realize what an awful thing this mistake is, particularly right before report cards. As to your poll, here's my answers. (1) Prozines, from the top down. TWS, SS, aSF, Planet, SSS. Different, WT, FFM (with Bradbury), the rest about equal. I rarely ever buy those below here, so I don't feel up to rating them. (2) Any mag with Bradbury in it automatically gets top billing. Any mag with E.E. Smith, G. O. Smith, or others of their all gadjets and no people ilk automatically get bottom place. Ed Hamilton, Heinlein, Hubbard, Frederic Brown, Hal Clement, Teddy Sturgeon, Lillith Loraine, Lews Padgett, and others of their school of thought all mean "buy the mag" to this person. (3) I'll take the aSF covers myself. On covers I like Bonestell, Orban, Lawrence, etc., on down. When is someone going to wise up and put Paul back on covers where he belongs? I love his beautiful, streamlined ray mechs and solid blocks of shaded color. Lovely little toys. (4) Yep, I collect prozines. Just those I like, tho, with no thought to complete series and such. Got close to 200 mags. Got 18 fantasy books; 35 including my Bible, religious books, and esoteric poetry ((?)) If you've ever read Kenneth Patchen (The Shy Pornographer -- An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air) you will understand that question mark). I also save fanzines. It's the packrat in me. (5) I do not belong to the NFFF. ((You should. -- Roscoe))((Yes. -r-tRapp)) I do not belong to the MSFS. I do belong to the Universe Club of Cadillac, an anarchistic bunch if you've ever seen one. No officers, no dues, no set membership list -- just walk right in and there you are, a member. Needless to say, it makes for a large turnover in membership. Have I met fen? Oh, brother, have I met fen! Cadillac is packed with the things, and I've met nearly all the MSFS bunch to boot. What do I think of them? Well, because the fandom idea is centered around literature, and a somewhat out-of-this-world form of it to boot, all fen are highly literate. (i.e. They can read. The majority of them ever wear shoes.) They are individualists, too. Hardly ever members of the gullible herd. Wonderful people. Some of them are a bit too much of deep-end-goer-offers. But for all that we could easily make anarchy work if most of the world were like fen. Race hatred? With them it is just an academic question. And even at that it is argued honestly and without the damned hypocrisy of the ordinary people, who are poisoned by Christianity. Even Christians are welcomed into fandom, even tho is about 80% atheist. In an anarchy, tis said nothing would get done. Not if the anarchists were fen. They get things done alright. Piles of fanzines and even some paper-backed books have been turned out by fen. Peace? Fellowship? I've known fen to put up perfect strangers at their homes for the night, just because they were fellow fen. Fandom is a way of life, and the best way of life I've ever come across. Why, aside from a cockeyed set of "Thou shalt not get plastered off the club treasury" ethics, fandom doesn't have any morals. Yes, fandom is amoral and I like it that way. (If you don't believe it, look at a couple of fanzine covers, and read Redd Boggs and other members of his ilk.)… Yors, RAY NELSON 433 E. Chapin Cadillac, Mich. ((This goes on and on, dammit. If popular demand is great enuf, we'll print the rest next month.)) [script] and we're pretty sure it will be. [/script] 21
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